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Donna Tartt

"People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see."

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"People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see."

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"In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?"

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"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."

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"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."

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"The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption."

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"People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you."

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"Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge."

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"The fake people, are these which always lie."

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"While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea."

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"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."

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"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

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"Real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut."
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